Domestic Violence Flashcards

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General evaluation critical point of Functionalists and New Right

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-argue that the rosy picture of nuclear family life transmitted by F and the NR obscures the contradictions that permeate family life in reality

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A common view of DV

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that it is the behaviour of a few sick or disturbed individuals
and that its causes are psychological rather than social

HOWEVER SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE CHALLENGED THIS VIEW

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Criticism of the ‘common view’ of DV
and statistics

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-DV is far too widespread to simply be the work of a few disturbed individuals

-accord to BRITISH CRIME SOCIETY (2007)
-DV accounts for almost a 1/6 of ALL VIOLENT CRIME

-Mirrlees-Black’s =survey of 16000 people estimates there are about 6.6million domestic assaults a year
-about half involving physical injury

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Marxists and radical feminists view of DV

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-have drawn attention to problem of DV
-usually defined as the power of men to control women by physical force

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Who criticises Marxists and radical feminists view of DV?

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Davidson
-men are also the victims of female DV

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Official statistics report

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violence by men against their female partners accounts for a 1/3 of all reported violence

Stanko’s survey in 2000 found that 1 incident of DV is reported by women to the police EVERY minute in the Uk

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Explanations for domestic violence

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Dobash & Dobash
Wilkinson

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Dobash & Dobash
1992

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argue that in patriarchal societies their is still a cultural support for the view that men have a ‘right’ to ‘discipline’ their wives or partners

furthermore, there has been little institutionalised support offered by society to the battered wife

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What did Dobash & Dobash find?

1992

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that one of the major factors precipitating assaults was the husband’s perception that his wife was not performing her domestic duties to his satisfaction

-insofar as our society still accepts a domestic division of labour which allocates the majority of domestic duties to women
-leaving them vulnerable to this sort of criticism and possible subsequent assault

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What did Dobash & Dobash’s study show?

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that many women are economically dependent on men
-since many women are in poor paid employment
-as such many women who leave abusive husbands are forced to return for economic reason and because of the stigmas surrounding the breakup of marriage

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Dobash and Dobash’s findings interpretation

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by radical feminists
-to suggest that widespread DV is an inevitable feature of patriarchal society and serves to preserve the power that all men have over women

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Dobash and Dobash evaluation

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Elliot
-rejects the Radical femijnist claim
-that alkl men benefit form DV

-Not all men are aggressive and most are opposed to DV

Radical feminists
-fail to explain female violence, including child abuse by women and violence against male partners

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Radical feminists supporting D&D critical evaluation

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e.g
It would be difficult to explain the actions of Vanessa George who systematically sexually-abused children in the nursery she worked by claiming that society is patriarchal

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Wilkinson

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-sees DV as the result of stress on family members caused by social inequality
-he argues that families on low incomes or living in overcrowded housing are likely to experience higher levels of stress.
-this reduces their chances of maintaining stable and caring rs and increases the risk of conflict and violence

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Findings of studies by Wilkinson and Mirrlees-Black show

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show that not all people are equally in danger of suffering domestic violence: those with less power, status, wealth or income are often at greatest risk

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Wilkinson’s approach supporting evaluation

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is useful in showing how social inequality produced stress and triggers conflict and violence in families

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What did Wilkinson find about the involvement of social class and domestic violence?

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those in lower social classes face greater hardships and hence stress, this helps to explain the class differences in the statistics on domestic violence